You can run a lightning node not as a router

Point remains, it's not trust-less, it works poorly relative to prisms, and appeals to scamming the regulator, while valid, are not real solutions 

justin_shocknet

Now, it may work for scamming the regulator, but just as easily could not. It's still forwarding a payment.

The idea is that it should be as much scamming the regulator as running a lightning routing node is. It's basically a reductionist approach. The only difference is protocol layer vs application layer.

bitcoin

Atomic Split Lightning Payments, Hold Invoices, and Blinded Paths

k00b

> Now, it may work for scamming the regulator, but just as easily could not. It's still forwarding a payment.

The idea is that it should be as much scamming the regulator as running a lightning routing node is. It's basically a reductionist approach. The only difference is protocol layer vs application layer.